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"You are insects railing against the heavens. Your actions will change nothing." - Uhai, Fire Emblem 7

Reminder that Allen went out of his way to advertise this contest to Reddit.
Reminder that he doesn't give a damn about how much they dictate terms in it.

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1g816h/the_great_gamefaqs_character_battle_ix/

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Nope not suspicious at all.
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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best Game Ever" Contest
http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page, Rest in peace Kazbar :(

We could always make MORE rallying topics on reddit, downvote them all, and that way any and ALL rallying topics would be deleted.

I dunno guys, I'm grasping at straws now...

Maybe we can move on now. Hopefully r/pokemon is still receptive to a topic for Mewtwo.

The link for 5 minute updates should be in the first post.

What is that link lol
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Beaten by 22 seconds.

I'm not going to delete the other topic though, because "DDoS Edition" needed to be used.
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Something something something
^Poorly disguised anti-caps sig

"The results are accurate. Link was caught stuffing 5 to 1. Also, the rumored "DDOS Attack" was unscheduled server maintenance. Thanks, and have fun."
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Chen Kenichi's #1 Fan (is also Yoblazer)
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You know what?If Snake had the same updates in the final versus Link can you tell me how many of you would complain?Seriously.That is getting ridiculous.
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GameFaqs is NOT the place to go for relationship advice.Nobody here gets any action unless it is their right or left hand.Including me.~Dawn and Dusk~

This will be the last contest ever if Allen lets this slide because this board helps out a fair amount with the contests, between match pics, nominations and whatever else, and nobody is going to want to help in the future if he lets this crap slide.
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you just can't live in that negative way...make way for the positive day

http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=3827011

This topic went from 1600 views to 3600 in 10 minutes.
It might actually be legit (and that makes it scarier)

I guess legitimacy had to go out the window sometime.

Ah well. See y'all when Sega rises again tonight.
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[NO BARKLEY NO PEACE]

People really overestimate how busy the LoL subreddit actually is.
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Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best Game Ever" Contest
http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page, Rest in peace Kazbar :(

So question for those keeping count:

Was that 265 Draven's best update? Because if it was even close there is no longer any way to pin this on rallying, it's stuffing, pure and simple.
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Something something something
^Poorly disguised anti-caps sig

The official LoL forum rally pretty much ends the match, I think.
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sc2us: MileS.151

The potential for cheating has always been in these contests, every match. There are obviously matches that have been decided by it. They've decided the winner of entire contests!

And my favorite characters are usually the beneficiaries! But that doesn't mean I like it.
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Scarlettail posted...

Maybe we can move on now. Hopefully r/pokemon is still receptive to a topic for Mewtwo.

They won't be allowed make blatant rallying threads anymore, only subtle ones not direct linking which will hurt a lot. Sonic/Mewtwo/Sephiroth/Squirtle should win in the next round, rallying somebody else at this stage would be destroying the contest for everyone. Draven may win this but he won't win the contest, not now.

Damn it.
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Be a good little washing machine, now... o_0

http://i.imgur.com/7kQ2aPm.png
"lol"

We using this topic?

The way this match is going we might as well skip ahead to the Bacon announcement.
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xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
GotD (219/384) Melee v FFX

Lightning Strikes posted...

So question for those keeping count:

Was that 265 Draven's best update? Because if it was even close there is no longer any way to pin this on rallying, it's stuffing, pure and simple.

That was Draven's best update by overall votes since getting 276 votes on the 3:11 AM update.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ!

I just realized that if Sephiroth doesn't choke tomorrow he's gonna make the final 9.
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Die young and save yourself.
Brace for the G's, and fast heel-toe work.

Draven got back to his Empowered form again. Would he have been able to if there'd been no DDOS and Link had continued to savage him in his Exhausted form continuously? Who can say.
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We are living our lives
Abound with so much information

I like how Draven is 20k+ behind his R2 total despite this current match being longer and seemingly having a lot more rallies. I wonder if Draven's next match will have another loser attack the site.
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http://myanimelist.net/animelist/swordz9

Also, about that forum rally:

No way that explains these votes. We've seen forum threads get 7000 views and only produce 700 votes total. Draven must have sourced AT LEAST 1500 from somewhere. Along with the DDoS, that's why it looks so suspicious. No way everyone who looks in that thread is voting Draven. That's what this would take.
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Something something something
^Poorly disguised anti-caps sig

The forum thread has outright bribery which is what makes it scary. Our best hope is that LOL's general forum is only so active and this will die off in time.
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"Hamas isn't really a terror organization." -Terran [Evil Republican]
Play Der Langrisser.

Also expecting that pondlife Kanz to come back after being conspicuously silent all afternoon.
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Die young and save yourself.
Brace for the G's, and fast heel-toe work.

Come on Draven do it!Save us from Link!But what exactly is a DDOS attack?
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GameFaqs is NOT the place to go for relationship advice.Nobody here gets any action unless it is their right or left hand.Including me.~Dawn and Dusk~

lmao

Now Draven's doing to Link what Link was doing to Draven.
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Current Let's Play: Final Fantasy II - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3557012
Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64

So they really thought the match only was 12 hours long? Wow I thought no trolls were that stupid.
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Ngamer64: Zylo, you're making less sense every day. SuperNiceDog > Me

Safer_777 posted...

Come on Draven do it!Save us from Link!But what exactly is a DDOS attack?

Distributed Denial of Service attack, it's where a bunch of people with their own servers do something to clog up the site and make it shut down. Anonymous are famous for it. You can look up more on Wikipedia.
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Die young and save yourself.
Brace for the G's, and fast heel-toe work.

Can we just blame the DDoS attack on Kanz and let him be banned as a result?
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Current Let's Play: Final Fantasy II - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3557012
Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64

Even if this eventually stops, Draven's doing what he needs to. Going to be really hard for Link to come back if this continues for a while.
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Demyx is better than Axel.
http://www.last.fm/user/crazydom

It's annoying how much we lack info about LoL votes
In Reddit,we can know how many people are online,but not how many are clicking the link to the poll
In LoL forums,we can know how many people are viewing the topic,but we don't know how much online

3600 in 3 hours is still not a scary number,we are talking about people that might have already voted today or just reading the topic again

It's quite possible that the LoL forum and Reddit will constantly bump the threads to maintain a rally that can't be beaten, the LoL forum even attaching a chance to win a monetary prize. It just stinks how the DDOS obviously hurt Link's chances to win quite a bit.
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CM PUNK - WWE Champion 11-20-2011 - 1-27-2013 - YES! YES! YES!

Snake could honestly beat post-Link Draven, considering the state he's likely to be in, but probably not with Samus/L-Block in the match.
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lightning-02 posted...

Scarlettail posted...

Maybe we can move on now. Hopefully r/pokemon is still receptive to a topic for Mewtwo.

They won't be allowed make blatant rallying threads anymore, only subtle ones not direct linking which will hurt a lot. Sonic/Mewtwo/Sephiroth/Squirtle should win in the next round, rallying somebody else at this stage would be destroying the contest for everyone. Draven may win this but he won't win the contest, not now.

Alas, they seemed to enjoy the previous rallies for Charizard and Squirtle. I also don't see how Draven won't win the contest, as this will happen with each match.

No way that explains these votes. We've seen forum threads get 7000 views and only produce 700 votes total. Draven must have sourced AT LEAST 1500 from somewhere. Along with the DDoS, that's why it looks so suspicious. No way everyone who looks in that thread is voting Draven. That's what this would take.

Well, keep in mind he's getting a base of 140 or so, so the rally only needs to be about half his vote intake.
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"Hamas isn't really a terror organization." -Terran [Evil Republican]
Play Der Langrisser.

DDoSing and extremely blatant stuffing?

Yikes. What a match.
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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

rh000001 posted...

It's quite possible that the LoL forum and Reddit will constantly bump the threads to maintain a rally that can't be beaten, the LoL forum even attaching a chance to win a monetary prize. It just stinks how the DDOS obviously hurt Link's chances to win quite a bit.

"you people care too much about these contests!"
*bribes people to vote for Draven*

Bacon confirms it's (probably) not a DDoS attack.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/67143451

e: And everything's looking legit vote-wise so far.
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Current Let's Play: Final Fantasy II - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3557012
Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64

Bacon saying the downtime was likely coincidental and the votes are legit.

show of hands who is surprised here
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xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?
GotD (219/384) Melee v FFX

This is like a DBZ fight, where one guy beats the ever-loving hell out of his enemy, then one of them transforms (or devolves) and the whole thing flips for a couple of episodes. Then there's a big interruption just as the good guy looks like he's about to win, buying the baddie time to recover and plan.
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We are living our lives
Abound with so much information

PERFECTLY LEGITMATE
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Chen Kenichi's #1 Fan (is also Yoblazer)
http://i.imgur.com/xiKRQ2F.gif

Not_Wylvane posted...

Bacon pretends it's (probably) not a DDoS attack.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/67143451

e: And everything's looking legit vote-wise so far.

Fix'd.
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"A game with amazing story and mediocre gameplay usually beats a game with amazing gameplay and mediocre story." - Vlado, Gaming Expert

And as I was afraid of,the rally topic in the subreddit is not at the 7th spot
No need to scroll down - you enter the reddit and see it

Well, not like anything changed.

We're just back to what we assumed was going to happen before the match started.

Link just decided to give us an interesting show in the progress. Remember to show your appreciation
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

So the DDOS is a coincidence at a convenient time when the rally threads were deleted and there has been absolutely no stuffing whatsoever in any of these controversial Draven matches while there was a nefarious act of 97 votes stuffed for Guybrush?

I just don't know anymore.

not much to do anymore

last thing i can think of is go to their subredit and spam a ton of draven rally topics to get the mods attention so maybe they'll mass delete everything including the legit ones.

Also I don't really think Allen has any reason to lie so whatever.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.